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Heh, I know I'm not a drummer, or guard.
But I thought mine was funny enough for you guys to maybe let it pass...
Our marching band was practicing our routine and I had to walk backwards with the tubanist? (tuba player) walking inbetween me and another clarinetist... he got WAY to close so I tried to move without breaking the picture but my hair got caught in one of his valves somehow! Not a little either like a lock of my hair. He dragged me a couple of feet just because he didn't like me, I guess, and pretended he didn't notice when my boyfriend yelled at the Drum Majors to stop to see if I was ok. I was bleeding a bit from my hair being torn out but my leg hurt worse because I was dragged over a piece of glass! xp Yeah... not a good day.

Muzical_Angel

Well...I'm not on the guard (I'm actually on the drumline but nothing interesting has happened to us this year yet and it's my first year) but at a concert last year there was a bit of technical difficulty on the stage. It was at the most intense part of the song; the flags were just finishing gertrudes (sp?) and the rifles were just about to throw triples and the "lead" rifle was going to do six (not sure what that's called). So all the rifles are in the throwing position getting ready for just the right moment in the song. The flags start marching diagonally and they get really close to the rifles in this part. Suddenly, the lights on the stage go out. The music is still playing but you can't see anything and you hear a crash and a scream. One of the flags hit one of the rifles in the jaw and knocked her glasses off. In response, she swung her rifle around and hit the flag girl in the knee causing her to fall over onto the rifle girl. Oh my gosh...the lights finally come back on and the person does the six while the other rifles are doing triples and there are two people on the ground cracking up. F-ing hilarious!

Also, this isn't really an "Oops!" moment but it happened to the drumline last year. The section leader always had his mouth hanging open while playing. they tried everything to get his mouth shut including tightening his hat, putting duct tape over his mouth, giving him something to chew on, and so on. Finally, the drumline would all march with their mouths open so they could have that signature look. It's hard to look fierce with your mouths hanging open but they managed.

well i've had a lot of oops moments in colorguard and winterguard. from colorguard the one i can remember the most was when we had to pass through the clarinets and flutes and they couldn't too much or they would break formation, but while moving through them we had to be doing something with the flag, even though our coach KNEW that we we're going through them at that moment. well let's just say i ended up accidently hitting one of them in the head. luckly it was one of my friends and she forgave me. lol.

an oops moment from winterguard would be setting up one of the props upside down when we were setting up for a performance. and when we we would grab the mat after a performance to take outside to fold i always ended having to walk backwards. let me tell you not fun when your hot, tired from practicing all day outside and then perfoming and having to watch out for those retarted bump things between gym doors. another oops moment from winterguard would be when we we're practicing in our gym on the mat i was joking with one of my friends while waiting to come out from behind the backdrop, well we had to run and when it came time to go out i ran and bumped into the backdrop and it fell and i jumped in shock only to run into someone knocking them over and then i fell ontop of them. i was stunned for a moment before i started to crack up laughing, although my coach didn't find it as amusing as i did. lol.

this isn't an oops moment from performing but on the way home on a bus from a band competion. well the bus i was on wasn't very full so we got to sit on our own if we wanted. well i was really tired and the bus seats aren't very far in front of eachother. so i was leaning my head against the seat in front of me and i was breathing through my mouth, well somehow i accidently licked the seat. i was so out of it i turned to my friend and was like i just licked the seat. she stared at me in shock and then starting laughing. well by the time we got home i was married to that seat and everyone on the bus without realizing it had a part in the wedding. ^^;;;

My friend and I (both guitarists) were Playing along to a song and while she was concentrating I was jumpin around and showing of when I span around in circles I hit her in the face and stomache with the end of my guitar. She never forgave me. redface

owwww!
what did your friend have to do then get a fake tooth?

Lol my friend Kristina was showing my other friend Veronica how big her tounge was and then Veronica said "how can it fit in your mouth?" right when everyone went silent! lol it sounded wrong.

yeah...........that sucks. i once got knocked out when i got hit in the temple with a drumstick.

anyone ever poped a cymbal inside out?
well, i didnt do this, but the other cymbal player poped his cymbal on the first crash of our show, and we were doing the full thing. i didnt remember the last song, so he had to tell me when to crash. sweatdrop